Month: November 2013

Sidelining the Warmongers

Any agreement with Iran was going to have to allow the Iranian government to argue that they’d gotten a good deal. Likewise, any agreement was going to be opposed by Israel and Saudi Arabia, and Saudi Arabia’s...

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Deal With Iran

Some kind of deal has been reached with Iran concerning their efforts to enrich uranium and otherwise pursue projects that could lead them to achieve a nuclear weapons capability. The president is expected to address the nation...

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An Unpublished Writer, 1922-2013 #2.3

This is part three of my mom’s view of The Great Depression. THE GREAT DEPRESSION Part 3 – Housing There were darker sides to those years. We lived in rented houses and we moved a lot. Whenever you saw a house with...

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High On Their Own Supply

Jonathan Strong, writing at National Review Online, explains that the Republicans are wary of doing anything that might distract people from their campaign against the Affordable Care Act. Therefore, Mitch McConnell...

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The New Breed

While it’s true that there is a new breed of Democrat in the U.S. Senate, and that the senators who have been elected post-Iraq fiasco are infused with quite a lot more backbone than their predecessors, the reason that...

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